| Title |
Merwin Shumway, Blanding, Utah, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Merwin Shumway, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Shumway, Merwin |
| Contributor |
Erick, Dorothy |
| Date |
1970-08-02 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Shumway, Merwin--Interviews; Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Utah; Uranium industry--United States; Vanadium Corporation of America |
| Description |
Transcript (43 pages) of an interview by Dorothy Erick with Merwin Shumway, on August 2, 1970. From tape number UR-145 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Shumway spoke with Dorothy Erick in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: mining as a family business, selling claims, Ridge One group, VCA, mining accidents, dishonest chemists, the LDS influence in Blanding (43 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
43 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6xw6rsj |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Uranium mines and mining; Uranium industry; Vanadium Corporation of America |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057210 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw6rsj |
| Title |
Page 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057187 |
| OCR Text |
Show MERWIN SHUMWAY #1 Brothers. But we dissolved a few years back, favor corporation, changed the name of the thing. DE: We' 11 get into that as we come back, because the background is so important. As you said, you worked then as a whole group, or a whole family, not just as a individual, but as a whole-- MS: As far as prospecting, when someone found an area that we thought should be looked at, we didn't run off by ourselves. We went and got usually the four brothers that were interested in mining, my father and three of his brothers, the four of them. DE: Will you name those so we have them on tape? MS: Well, usually the ones that were most interested were Seth and A and Lee and Harris. Us boys would actually as we got older get in the picture too. Then later on in life we replaced them. They didn't prospect when we still were doing a lot of prospecting, as they got older too. Old man A fixed it up with everybody sooner or later. DE: It does have a way doesn't it? Now early prospecting that you did was back in the 1930s? MS: The very earliest, yes. In the late '30s. See, I was only nine years old in 1930. Born in '21. I must have been around--before I really began prospecting I guess I was 16 when I first went to work in the 21 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw6rsj/1057187 |
